A few more OOMs of efficiency gains could unlock new financial modeling
xeophon · x · 2026-10-19
In a reply to @willcb, xeophon notes he gets excited thinking about the kinds of financial modeling that become practical with a few more orders of magnitude (OOMs) of efficiency gains — implying that current compute/inference costs still bottleneck complex financial models, and continued cost reductions could unlock entirely new modeling paradigms.
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